The Kids Are Alright
In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys. There are 10 people, three bedrooms, one bathroom and everyone in it for themselves.
Episodes
The household is turned upside down when oldest son Lawrence returns home and announces he's quitting the seminary to go off and "save the world." Tim...
Timmy decides to enter a poetry contest to win the money he needs to repair his ventriloquist dummy; Lawrence complains that there are no fresh vegeta...
Mike proudly introduces a new microwave to the Cleary household; Lawrence attempts to apply lessons from a psych class at school to psychoanalyze Mike...
To hide a mess Eddie made, his girlfriend, Wendi, tries to distract Peggy by insisting she take a day off; Peggy accepts the offer and requests Wendi...
Timmy must choose between his dad's dreams for him and his own dreams of showbiz glory; feeling rusty after being at the seminary for so long, Lawrenc...
Mike comes to the conclusion that Eddie is sexually active and takes it upon himself to give him advice; Joey and Timmy attempt to disrupt Frank's pla...
Mike and Peggy debate whether they should have another child; Pat overhears that he is going to have a little sister, leading the kids to dig deeper i...
When Peggy's successful brother drops in for Christmas, Mike feels envious; Timmy mistakenly receives $100 from his great-aunt for Christmas; Eddie fo...
The Cleary boys beg Peggy to tell them she loves them; Mike invites a co-worker to help compel a confession from the child who broke the dining room l...
Frank secretly helps design a set for a musical in which Timmy is performing; Mike grows increasingly concerned that Joey is heading down a shady mora...
Eddie becomes distraught when Wendi breaks up with him over disagreements on how they want to handle their future; Peggy contemplates whether she has...
The Clearys feel conflicted when Lawrence and Eddie are drafted to serve in the Vietnam War; Mike and Peggy take matters into their own hands and try...
Peggy tries to trick Timmy into taking better care of his personal hygiene; Mike fears that Peggy's meddling is causing Timmy to develop insecurities;...
Mike and Peggy are stunned when they learn that Father Dunne has a girlfriend; Frank loses the church keys entrusted to him and must find them before...
Peggy's knack for reusing wax from old birthday candles to make new ones lures her outside the home for the first time. Her newfound candle-making wor...
Mike and Peggy are sympathetic when Wendi's parents split up until Peggy realizes that Wendi's parents left her in the house alone, leaving her and Ed...
Timmy enters a contest to appear on a TV show and takes matters into his own hands when he doesn't hear back; Peggy takes a driving test to get her li...
When Peggy storms out of the house without explanation after a mishap at the grocery store, Mike enlists Wendi to help find her.
A concerned Peggy manipulates William into joining the church choir to keep him engaged in Catholicism after learning he's questioning his beliefs. Me...
Peggy discovers that Timmy has a newfound and inappropriate hobby and urges Mike to talk to him about it even though he is reluctant to do so. Despite...
Peggy's competitive side kicks in when she learns that Helen's husband's professional accomplishments are getting high recognition, so she decides to...
After learning that donations are down at their church, Peggy grows concerned that the cutbacks will affect the nursing home where she is secretly hou...
Peggy struggles with Lawrence's decision to move out of the house, especially after she discovers that he is secretly moving in with a girlfriend she'...
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3 years ago
Like the ill fated "That '80s Show" this is likely doomed for failure and for the exact same reasons.
The show spends a lot more time making fun of the technology and culture of the era than it does actually developing characters and a story line.
There are only so many jokes you can make about "This is what microwaves used to look like," and "Remember Bob Hope, he was a thing," before it gets stale. And by that I mean 15 minutes into the show the comedy approach of "this was a thing, laugh at how old it is" wears off.
And, unfortunately, that's really the extent of the humor that the writers seemed to have planned for the series.
So, if a stream of "remember this, it was a thing, let's mock how old it is" is something you can sit through for 30 minutes, this show if for you.
For the rest of us, it's not even nostalgic. It's just a horrible attempt at humor. And an attempt that, despite the best efforts of the cast, falls short when compared to "That '70s Show's" focus on the characters more than the era.
The setting of the show should just be that, the setting. When the setting becomes the plot itself and the source of the humor it falls flat.
